Travel Souvenir Idea: Find Illustrated Postcards

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So, postcards are not a new concept. You’ve seen them everywhere: gift shops, airports, bookstores. But I find that most of the postcards on the rack are some generic stock photo of the location and then the name of the town across the top or bottom (usually in some outdated font choice).

Sometimes though, you find a gem. And I’ve been on the hunt for well-illustrated postcards everywhere I go. The key is that they’re illustrated and not photographed. These sort of cards appeal the most to my artistic aesthetic and upgrade the cards into something I feel good about putting on my walls.

Artistic Postcard Collection - www.randomolive.com

They’re definitely tougher to find than the usual photographed cards (in one airport, I went to about 5 different gift shops to hunt one down), but they’re totally worth it.

Have you found any awesome postcards?
Post a pic on Instagram and tag me @randomolive.

Super Soft, Super Moist, Super Fluffy Banana Bread

Super Soft, Super Moist, Super Fluffy Banana Bread | randomolive.com

I only really know how to bake one thing from scratch. But that one thing is a hit every single time I make it. I make it for potlucks, Thanksgiving, Christmas, my husband’s birthday, every event where I need to bring something. And it’s super easy.

I think the original source was this fromĀ AllRecipes.

I’ve adapted it to be the following:

Ingredients:

1.5 cups of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
0.5 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of granulated sugar
2 eggs
0.24 cup of melted butter
3 mashed bananas
a dash of cinnamon (optional)
a splash of vanilla extract (optional)
Bake in 9×9 inch pan at 350 degrees F until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean from center, approximately 40 minutes.
Super Soft, Super Moist, Super Fluffy Banana Bread | randomolive.com

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Who’s Olive?


Hi, I'm Olivia, aka Olive. I'm always trying out random crafts and things... so this blog shows the evolution of all the stuff I'm interested in.

Hobby Timeline:
2014-2015: Photography, digital scrapbooking
2015-2017: Brush lettering
2018-2021: Crochet
2021-present: Romance book reading

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